The New York Times / robots.txt snapshot
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| 1 | # New York Times content is made available for your personal, non-commercial |
| 2 | # use subject to our Terms of Service here: |
| 3 | # https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428-Terms-of-Service. |
| 4 | # Use of any device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape the content |
| 5 | # using automated means is prohibited without prior written permission from |
| 6 | # The New York Times Company. Prohibited uses include but are not limited to: |
| 7 | # (1) text and data mining activities under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in |
| 8 | # the Digital Single Market; |
| 9 | # (2) the development of any software, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), |
| 10 | # and/or large language models (LLMs); |
| 11 | # (3) creating or providing archived or cached data sets containing our content to others; and/or |
| 12 | # (4) any commercial purposes. |
| 13 | # Contact https://nytlicensing.com/contact/ for assistance. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | User-agent: * |
| 16 | User-agent: Googlebot |
| 17 | Disallow: /ads/ |
| 18 | Disallow: /adx/bin/ |
| 19 | Disallow: /athletic/wp/wp-admin/ |
| 20 | Allow: /athletic/wp/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php |
| 21 | Disallow: /athletic/async-* |
| 22 | Disallow: /athletic/search/* |
| 23 | Allow: /athletic/search/$ |
| 24 | Disallow: /athletic/checkout/ |
| 25 | Disallow: /athletic/checkout?plan_id* |
| 26 | Allow: /athletic/checkout/$ |
| 27 | Disallow: /athletic/checkout2* |
| 28 | Disallow: /athletic/login/ |
| 29 | Disallow: /athletic/login?login_source* |
| 30 | Disallow: /athletic/login?ref_page* |
| 31 | Allow: /athletic/login/$ |
| 32 | Disallow: /athletic/login2/ |
| 33 | Disallow: /athletic/login2?login_source* |
| 34 | Disallow: /athletic/login2?ref_page* |
| 35 | Allow: /athletic/login2/$ |
| 36 | Disallow: /athletic/report/ |
| 37 | Disallow: /athletic/*/discuss/* |
| 38 | Disallow: /athletic/register/ |
| 39 | Disallow: /athletic/register?welcome_redirect* |
| 40 | Disallow: /athletic/register2/ |
| 41 | Disallow: /athletic/register2?welcome_redirect* |
| 42 | Disallow: /athletic/betmgm-redirect* |
| 43 | Disallow: /athletic/cdn-cgi/ |
| 44 | Disallow: /athletic/verizon/* |
| 45 | Disallow: /athletic/forgot-password/* |
| 46 | Disallow: /athletic/forgot-password2/* |
| 47 | Disallow: /athletic/amp-social-login* |
| 48 | Disallow: /athletic/track-analytics/ |
| 49 | Disallow: /athletic/amp-auth/ |
| 50 | Disallow: /athletic/rss-feed/ |
| 51 | Disallow: /athletic/*?*rss=1 |
| 52 | Disallow: /athletic/global-color-test.php |
| 53 | Disallow: /athletic/global-font-test.php |
| 54 | Disallow: /athletic/graphql* |
| 55 | Disallow: /athletic/api* |
| 56 | Disallow: /athletic/ip* |
| 57 | Disallow: /athletic/call-set-cookie-with-context/* |
| 58 | Disallow: /athletic/get-current-user/ |
| 59 | Disallow: /athletic/pv.json |
| 60 | Disallow: /athletic/following-feed-test/* |
| 61 | Disallow: /athletic*/boxscore/* |
| 62 | Disallow: /athletic/feed-test/ |
| 63 | Disallow: /athletic*/signed-mp3-redirect-url/* |
| 64 | Disallow: /athletic/embedded-interactive/* |
| 65 | Disallow: /card/panel/ |
| 66 | Disallow: /panel/ |
| 67 | Disallow: /puzzles/leaderboards/invite/* |
| 68 | Disallow: /svc |
| 69 | Allow: /svc/crosswords |
| 70 | Allow: /svc/games |
| 71 | Allow: /svc/letter-boxed |
| 72 | Allow: /svc/spelling-bee |
| 73 | Allow: /svc/wordle |
| 74 | Allow: /svc/connections |
| 75 | Allow: /svc/sudoku |
| 76 | Allow: /svc/strands |
| 77 | Allow: /svc/pips |
| 78 | Disallow: /video/embedded/* |
| 79 | Disallow: /search |
| 80 | Disallow: /multiproduct/ |
| 81 | Disallow: /hd/ |
| 82 | Disallow: /inyt/ |
| 83 | Disallow: /*?*query= |
| 84 | Disallow: /*.pdf$ |
| 85 | Disallow: /*?*login= |
| 86 | Disallow: /*?*campaignId= |
| 87 | Disallow: /*?*mcubz= |
| 88 | Disallow: /*?*smprod= |
| 89 | Disallow: /*?*ProfileID= |
| 90 | Disallow: /*?*ListingID= |
| 91 | Disallow: /*?*campaign_id= |
| 92 | Disallow: /*?*hybrid= |
| 93 | Disallow: /*?*entry= |
| 94 | Disallow: /*?*embed= |
| 95 | Disallow: /*?ls= |
| 96 | Disallow: /*?*&ls= |
| 97 | Disallow: /v1/initialize* |
| 98 | Disallow: /v1/rgstr* |
| 99 | Disallow: /wirecutter/wp-admin/ |
| 100 | Disallow: /wirecutter/*.zip$ |
| 101 | Disallow: /wirecutter/*.csv$ |
| 102 | Disallow: /wirecutter/deals/beta |
| 103 | Disallow: /wirecutter/data-requests |
| 104 | Disallow: /wirecutter/search |
| 105 | Disallow: /wirecutter/*?s= |
| 106 | Disallow: /wirecutter/*&xid= |
| 107 | Disallow: /wirecutter/*?q= |
| 108 | Disallow: /wirecutter/*?l= |
| 109 | Disallow: /wirecutter/*?merchant= |
| 110 | Disallow: /wirecutter/out/ |
| 111 | Disallow: /search |
| 112 | Disallow: /subscription/*?*source= |
| 113 | Disallow: /subscription/*?*onboarded= |
| 114 | Disallow: /*?*smid= |
| 115 | Disallow: /*?*partner= |
| 116 | Disallow: /*?*utm_source= |
| 117 | Allow: /wirecutter/*?*utm_source= |
| 118 | Allow: /ads/public/ |
| 119 | Allow: /svc/news/v3/all/pshb.rss |
| 120 | Allow: /wirecutter/reviews/*?*utm_source= |
| 121 | Allow: /wirecutter/blog/*?*utm_source= |
| 122 | Allow: /wirecutter/lists/*?*utm_source= |
| 123 | Allow: /wirecutter/gifts/*?*utm_source= |
| 124 | |
| 125 | |
| 126 | # Googlebot Specific Rules |
| 127 | |
| 128 | User-agent: Googlebot |
| 129 | Disallow: /athletic*adgroupid* |
| 130 | Disallow: /athletic*campaignid* |
| 131 | Disallow: /athletic*ad_id* |
| 132 | Disallow: /athletic*access_token* |
| 133 | Disallow: /athletic*amp_reader_id* |
| 134 | Disallow: /athletic*/?source=* |
| 135 | Disallow: /athletic/*?*embed=1 |
| 136 | |
| 137 | |
| 138 | # Disallow Rules |
| 139 | |
| 140 | User-agent: AliyunSecBot |
| 141 | Disallow: / |
| 142 | |
| 143 | User-agent: AmazonBot |
| 144 | Disallow: /wirecutter/ |
| 145 | |
| 146 | User-agent: anthropic-ai |
| 147 | Disallow: / |
| 148 | |
| 149 | User-agent: Applebot-Extended |
| 150 | Disallow: / |
| 151 | |
| 152 | User-agent: archive.org_bot |
| 153 | Disallow: / |
| 154 | |
| 155 | User-agent: AudigentAdBot |
| 156 | Disallow: / |
| 157 | |
| 158 | User-agent: AwarioRssBot |
| 159 | User-agent: AwarioSmartBot |
| 160 | Disallow: / |
| 161 | |
| 162 | User-agent: BLEXBot |
| 163 | Disallow: / |
| 164 | |
| 165 | User-agent: Bytespider |
| 166 | Disallow: / |
| 167 | |
| 168 | User-agent: CCBot |
| 169 | Disallow: / |
| 170 | |
| 171 | User-agent: ChatGPT-User |
| 172 | Disallow: / |
| 173 | |
| 174 | User-agent: ClaudeBot |
| 175 | Disallow: / |
| 176 | |
| 177 | User-agent: Claude-SearchBot |
| 178 | Disallow: / |
| 179 | |
| 180 | User-agent: Claude-User |
| 181 | Disallow: / |
| 182 | |
| 183 | User-agent: Claude-Web |
| 184 | Disallow: / |
| 185 | |
| 186 | User-agent: cohere-ai |
| 187 | Disallow: / |
| 188 | |
| 189 | User-agent: DataForSeoBot |
| 190 | Disallow: / |
| 191 | |
| 192 | User-agent: Diffbot |
| 193 | Disallow: / |
| 194 | |
| 195 | User-agent: DuckAssistBot |
| 196 | Disallow: / |
| 197 | |
| 198 | User-agent: EchoboxBot |
| 199 | Disallow: / |
| 200 | |
| 201 | User-agent: FacebookBot |
| 202 | Disallow: / |
| 203 | |
| 204 | User-agent: FriendlyCrawler |
| 205 | Disallow: / |
| 206 | |
| 207 | User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot |
| 208 | Disallow: / |
| 209 | Allow: /wirecutter/ |
| 210 | Allow: /athletic/ |
| 211 | |
| 212 | User-agent: Google-Extended |
| 213 | Disallow: / |
| 214 | |
| 215 | User-agent: GPTBot |
| 216 | Disallow: / |
| 217 | |
| 218 | User-agent: ImagesiftBot |
| 219 | Disallow: / |
| 220 | |
| 221 | User-agent: Jetslide |
| 222 | Disallow: / |
| 223 | |
| 224 | User-agent: magpie-crawler |
| 225 | Disallow: / |
| 226 | |
| 227 | User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent |
| 228 | User-agent: meta-externalagent |
| 229 | Disallow: / |
| 230 | |
| 231 | User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher |
| 232 | User-agent: meta-externalfetcher |
| 233 | Disallow: / |
| 234 | |
| 235 | User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer |
| 236 | User-agent: meta-webindexer/1.1 |
| 237 | Disallow: / |
| 238 | |
| 239 | User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot |
| 240 | Disallow: / |
| 241 | |
| 242 | User-agent: NewsNow |
| 243 | Disallow: / |
| 244 | |
| 245 | User-agent: news-please |
| 246 | Disallow: / |
| 247 | |
| 248 | User-agent: OAI-SearchBot |
| 249 | Disallow: / |
| 250 | |
| 251 | User-agent: omgili |
| 252 | Disallow: / |
| 253 | |
| 254 | User-agent: omgilibot |
| 255 | Disallow: / |
| 256 | |
| 257 | User-agent: peer39_crawler |
| 258 | User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0 |
| 259 | Disallow: / |
| 260 | |
| 261 | User-agent: PerplexityBot |
| 262 | Disallow: / |
| 263 | |
| 264 | User-agent: Perplexity-User |
| 265 | Disallow: / |
| 266 | |
| 267 | User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler |
| 268 | Disallow: / |
| 269 | |
| 270 | User-agent: quillbot.com |
| 271 | Disallow: / |
| 272 | |
| 273 | User-agent: Quora-Bot |
| 274 | Disallow: / |
| 275 | |
| 276 | User-agent: Scrapy |
| 277 | Disallow: / |
| 278 | |
| 279 | User-agent: SeekrBot |
| 280 | Disallow: / |
| 281 | |
| 282 | User-agent: SeznamHomepageCrawler |
| 283 | Disallow: / |
| 284 | |
| 285 | User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot |
| 286 | Disallow: / |
| 287 | |
| 288 | User-agent: Timpibot |
| 289 | Disallow: / |
| 290 | |
| 291 | User-agent: TurnitinBot |
| 292 | Disallow: / |
| 293 | |
| 294 | User-agent: ViennaTinyBot |
| 295 | Disallow: / |
| 296 | |
| 297 | User-agent: YouBot |
| 298 | Disallow: / |
| 299 | |
| 300 | |
| 301 | # Ad Bot Rules |
| 302 | |
| 303 | User-agent: AmazonAdBot |
| 304 | Allow: / |
| 305 | |
| 306 | |
| 307 | # Social Bot Rules |
| 308 | |
| 309 | User-agent: facebookexternalhit |
| 310 | Allow: /*?*smid= |
| 311 | |
| 312 | User-agent: Twitterbot |
| 313 | Allow: /*?*smid= |
| 314 | |
| 315 | User-agent: RedditBot |
| 316 | Allow: /*?*smid= |
| 317 | |
| 318 | # Sitemaps |
| 319 | |
| 320 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/news.xml.gz |
| 321 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/sitemap.xml.gz |
| 322 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/collections.xml.gz |
| 323 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/video.xml.gz |
| 324 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/cooking.xml.gz |
| 325 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/recipe-collects.xml.gz |
| 326 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/regions.xml |
| 327 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/best-sellers.xml |
| 328 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/subscription-landing-pages.xml |
| 329 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/weather.xml.gz |
| 330 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/espanol.xml.gz |
| 331 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/espanol-collects.xml.gz |
| 332 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/sitemapindex.xml |
| 333 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-videos-index.xml |
| 334 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-authors.xml |
| 335 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-verticals.xml |
| 336 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-teams.xml |
| 337 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-cities.xml |
| 338 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-players.xml |
| 339 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-tags.xml |
| 340 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-stats.xml |
| 341 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-schedule.xml |
| 342 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-roster.xml |
| 343 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap.xml |
| 344 | Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/games-assets/v2/assets/sitemap/games.xml |